Glossary of Terms

 

 

Activity

 

BAT

 

 

 

 

 

Carrier 

 

 

 

Cementatious stabilisation

 

 

Consignor

 

COTC

 

DEFRA

 

DGSA

 

EA

 

ELV

 

EPA 1990

 

European Waste Catalogue

 

Gate Prices

 

 

Hazardous Waste

 

 

HTI

 

Inert waste

 

 

IPPC

 

LoWR

 

Merchant Landfill Site

 

 

 

Monocells

 

NI EHS

 

Permit

 

 

Producer

 

 

Relevant Objectives

  

SEPA

 

SNRHW

 

Te

 

Techniques

 

 

WAC

 

WML

 

WPA

An industrial activity which may form part of an IPPC installation

 

Best Available Techniques, the main basis for determining standards in IPPC under the PPC Regulations, and defined as the most effective and advanced stage in the development of Activities and their methods of operation which indicates the practical suitability of particular techniques for providing in the principle the basis for ELV's designed to prevent and, where that is not practicable, generally to reduce emissions and the impact on the environment as a whole.

 

Is a person who collects a consignment of hazardous waste from the premises at which it was produced or being held and delivers it to a consignee, or transports it in the course if its transfer from those premises to the consignee. 

 

The process of mixing waste with cement to change its physical and chemical properties, immobilise contaminants and form a stable material with lowered permeability (Source: Robert Long Consultancy)

 

Is the person to whom the waste is being transported for disposal or recovery.

 

Certificate of Technical Competence

 

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

 

Dangerous Goods Safety Advisor

 

Environment Agency

 

Emission Limit Value

 

Environmental Protection Act 1990

 

A classification system for waste material. It categorises wastes based on a combination of what they are and the process or activity which produced them

 

The price charged to customers per tonne of waste deposited at landfill sites, excluding landfill tax and VAT

 

Any waste which is covered by Article 1 (4) of Directive 91/689/EEC - the Hazardous Waste Directive

 

High Temperature Incineration

 

Chemically inert, non-combustible, non-biodegradable and non-polluting waste defined in the EU Directive on the Landfill of Waste (Source: Environment Agency)

 

Integrated Pollution Prevention & Control

 

The List of Waste (England) Regulations 2005 and the list of Waste (Wales) Regulations 2005

 

A landfill site for the disposal of waste operated on a commercial basis and open to the general market. (The opposite of a merchant landfill site is an in-house facility that is closed to the general market and used for the disposal of wastes arising from and integral to the operators own related business) (Source: Robert Long Consultancy)

 

Dedicated cell within a landfill site licensed to accept a single SNRHW

 

Northern Ireland Environment and Heritage Service

 

A permit granted by the regulator allowing the operation of an installation subject to certain conditions.

 

Is the person who activities produce waste or a person who carries out pre-processing, mixing or other operations resulting in a change in the nature or composition of this waste.

 

Certain objectives derived from the EC Waste framework directives that apply to activities involving the disposal or recovery of waste regulated under the PPC regulations

 

Scottish Environmental Protection Agency

 

Stable non-Reactive Hazardous Wastes

 

Tonnes equivalent

 

In connection with BAT, includes both the technology used and the way in which the Installation is designed, built, maintained, operated and decommissioned

 

Waste Acceptance Criteria

 

Waste Management Licencing or Waste Management Licence

 

Waste Planning Authority